1851 Local Laws of Indiana

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Local Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Fifth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis : J. P. Chapman, 1851. Google Books

 

Chapter 1. An act to incorporate the Town of Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana.

Chapter 2. An act for the relief of John Henry Lewis Gerke, and Frederick Myers.

Chapter 3. An act to repeal an Act entitled “an Act authorizing the Commissioners of Fountain county to vacate a certain street in the town of Rob Roy, in Fountain county.

Chapter 4. An act to locate a State Road in the Counties of Kosciusko and Wabash.

Chapter 5. An act to open an alley in the town of Perrysville, in Vermillion county.

Chapter 6. An act to revive the 61st section of an Act entitled “an Act to establish certain state roads therein named, and for other purposes,” approved February 18, 1839.

Chapter 7. An act to vacate the town of Charleston, in Huntington county.

Chapter 8. An act to legalize the election of the County Commissioners of the county of Owen.

Chapter 9. An act to incorporate the Athenian Society of Indiana University.

Chapter 10. An act to amend an act entitled “an Act to incorporate the Western Plank Road Company,” approved Jan. 14, 1850.

Chapter 11. An act to vacate part of Water street, in the town of Williamsport, in the county of Warren, and state of Indiana.

Chapter 12. An act to amend an Act entitled “An act to incorporate the White County Monticello Bridge Company,” approved January 15th, 1850.

Chapter 13. An act to amend an Act entitled “An act to incorporate certain Turnpike Companies therein named,” approved Jan. 29th, 1839.

Chapter 14. An act to extend the powers of the Lawrenceburgh and Upper Mississippi Rail Road Company.

Chapter 15. An act to enable the inhabitants of School District No. 8, in Congressional Township No. 36 north of range No. 3 west, in the county of Laporte, to levy a tax sufficient to build a school house.

Chapter 16. An act for the relief of the inhabitants of Congressional Township No. 25, north of range 2 east, in Cass county.

Chapter 17. An act relative to the Jeffersonville Association.

Chapter 18. An act in relation to the assessment and collection of a specific road tax in Deer creek township, Cass county.

Chapter 19. An act to revive a certain Act therein named.

Chapter 20. An act to amend the charter of the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad Company.

Chapter 21. An act to locate a State Road on the line dividing Bartholomew and Decatur Counties.

Chapter 22. An act requiring the supervisors to settle with the township trustees in the county of Wells.

Chapter 23. An act to enable the qualified voters of school district number seven, in township 36 north of range three, in Laporte county, to levy a tax in said district for the purpose of building a school house.

Chapter 24. An act to repeal an act therein named, so far as the same relates to the counties of Boone, Lawrence and Martin.

Chapter 25. An act to correct a misprint and supply an omission in an act entitled “An act directing the Secretary of State to make a patent to James Hensley for certain Wabash and Erie canal lands,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 26. An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to incorporate the LaGrange Phalanx,” approved January 13, 1845.

Chapter 27. An act to authorize the Auditor of Clinton county to make to John Mohn a certificate of purchase for a certain tract of land in said county.

Chapter 28. An act authorizing the Terre Haute and Richmond Rail Road Company, to issue bonds, for the sole purpose of borrowing money to complete said road and to secure their repayment by mortgaging the property of said company.

Chapter 29. An act to change the name of the town of Rochester, in Franklin county, Indiana, to Cedar Grove.

Chapter 30. An act to authorize the appointment of a guardian of the person and estate of the person therein named and for other purposes.

Chapter 31. An act legalizing the proceedings of a certain Plank Road Company.

Chapter 32. An act to repeal an Act therein named.

Chapter 33. An act to amend section 29 of the act to incorporate the Fort Wayne and Columbia Plank Road Company.

Chapter 34. An act to change the name of Melissa Jane Gillespie to that of Melissa Jane Blair.

Chapter 35. An act to vacate the streets and alleys in the town of Fairview, Montgomery county.

Chapter 36. An act to legalize the election of Samuel Geisinger to the office of County Treasurer of Elkhart county.

Chapter 37. An act to further amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Michigan Road Company,” approved Jan. 13, 1845, and for other purposes.

Chapter 38. An act authorizing the Probate Judge of Hamilton county to appoint an administrator on the estate of John S. Massey.

Chapter 39. An act to amend the act to incorporate the trustees of the Indiana Asbury University, approved January 10, 1837.

Chapter 40. An act for the benefit of the New Albany and Salem Rail Road Company.

Chapter 41. An act to amend an Act entitled “An act to incorporate the Richmond and Miami Railroad Company,” approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 42. An act for the relief of Amasa Hazen, of Ripley county.

Chapter 43. An act to change the name of the town of Nicklesonville.

Chapter 44. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Junction Railroad Company,” passed 8th day of February, 1848.

Chapter 45. An act to change the name of Nancy Ann Kelso, of Dubois county, to Nancy Ann McMahan.

Chapter 46. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Patriot, in Switzerland county, and legalize the action of the collector of said town.

Chapter 47. An act for the relief of certain persons therein named, in Warren county.

Chapter 48. An act to authorize the extension of the New Castle and Richmond Rail Road.

Chapter 49. An act authorizing Reason W. Prather to drain certain low lands therein mentioned.

Chapter 50. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Richmond and Williamsburgh Turnpike Company,” approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 51. An act to change the name and extend the corporate privileges of the Perry Cotton Mill at Cannelton.

Chapter 52. An act to repeal section one of an act approved January 19, 1850, “of an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Indianapolis,” approved May 27, 1848.

Chapter 53. An act to incorporate the Cannelton Levee and Draining Company.

Chapter 54. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Noblesville,” approved January 19, 1850.

Chapter 55. An act to consolidate and publish in one act the several acts incorporating the city of Lawrenceburgh, and to revise and amend the same.

Chapter 56. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Terre Haute and Richmond Rail Road Company,” approved January 26, 1847, and the several acts amendatory of said act.

Chapter 57. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Williamsburgh and Centreville Turnpike Company,” approved January 11, 1849.

Chapter 58. An act to incorporate the town of Pendleton, in Madison county.

Chapter 59. An act to reorganize the Evansville Insurance Companies, chartered under the several acts of February 8th, 1836, and January 21st, 1850.

Chapter 60. An act to locate a State road on the line dividing Wayne and Randolph counties.

Chapter 61. An act to incorporate the Ohio and Wabash Plank Road Company.

Chapter 62. An act to incorporate the Wabash Railroad Company.

Chapter 63. An act to incorporate the Covington and Danville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 64. An act to incorporate the Columbia, Oswego and Leesburgh Plank Road company.

Chapter 65. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Bedford Insurance Company,” approved February 8, 1836, and to change the name of said company.

Chapter 66. An act to amend the charter of the Madison Insurance Company.

Chapter 67. An act to authorize a company to construct the Manchester, Pleasant Ridge and Elizabethtown Turnpike.

Chapter 68. An act to amend “an act to incorporate the Ohio River and Princeton Plank Road Company.”

Chapter 69. An act to incorporate the Liberty and Miami Railroad Company.

Chapter 70. An act to legalize the doings and proceedings of the Alton, Mt. Carmel and New Albany Railroad company, and for other purposes.

Chapter 71. A preamble and act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Indiana Canal Company,” approved December 6th, 1848, and the amendment thereto, approved January 17th, 1849.

Chapter 72. An act to repeal an act therein named.

Chapter 73. An act locating a State Road on the line dividing the counties of Allen and DeKalb, and for other purposes.

Chapter 74. An act for the benefit of the Martinsville and Franklin Railroad Company.

Chapter 75. An act to incorporate the Sparta and Versailles Turnpike Company.

Chapter 76. An act for the relief of Joseph Allen, Elias Grant, and Joseph Mathers, of Crawford county.

Chapter 77. An act legalizing a certain deed of conveyance heretofore made and executed by the County Auditor, of Perry county, to William Elder.

Chapter 78. An act to amend “an act to incorporate the town of Liberty in Union county,” approved January 18, 1850.

Chapter 79. An act to legalize the election of Isaac P. Snellson to the office of Treasurer of Madison County.

Chapter 80. An act declaring a mis-print in an Act approved January 16, 1849.

Chapter 81. An act for the relief of the widow and heirs of Alexis Le Roy, deceased.

Chapter 82. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company.”

Chapter 83. An act to incorporate the Winchester and Greenville Railroad Company.

Chapter 84. An act to incorporate the Goshen and Plymouth Plank Road Company.

Chapter 85. An act to incorporate the town of Covington, in the county of Fountain.

Chapter 86. An act to incorporate the Wabash and Marion Plank Road Company.

Chapter 87. An act to incorporate the Laporte Male and Female Seminary.

Chapter 88. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Hamilton Manufacturing Company,” approved January 15, 1850.

Chapter 89. An act to incorporate the Newport and Winchester Plank Road Company.

Chapter 90. An act to incorporate the Bluffton, Camden, and Winchester Plank Road Company.

Chapter 91. An act to incorporate the Mulliean Mill and Junction Plank or Clay Turnpike Road Company.

Chapter 92. An act to incorporate the Town of Valparaiso, in the county of Porter.

Chapter 93. An act to incorporate the New Albany and Vincennes Plank Road Company.

Chapter 94. An act to change the name of Levi Gear to that of Levi Frash.

Chapter 95. An act legalizing an order for the publication of the delinquent list for the year 1850, in DeKalb county.

Chapter 96. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to establish a certain State Road therein named,” approved February 16, 1848.

Chapter 97. An act in relation to the streets and alleys in the town of Lexington, in Scott county.

Chapter 98. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the West Delphi Bridge Company,” approved February 15th, 1838; and an act entitled an act to amend said act, approved January 23, 1847.

Chapter 99. An act relative to the borough of Vincennes.

Chapter 100. An act for the relief of Rebecca Elder, of the county of Union, State of Indiana.

Chapter 101. An act for the relief of Michael Grannin, Jr., late of Daviess county.

Chapter 102. An act to amend an act entitled “an act for incorporating the Wabash Manual Labor College, and Teachers’ Seminary,” approved January 15, 1834.

Chapter 103. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Indianapolis and Brownsburg Plank Road Company,” approved January 18, 1850.

Chapter 104. An act to incorporate the Aurora and Hartford Turnpike Company.

Chapter 105. An act to incorporate the town of Bluffton, in Wells county, Indiana.

Chapter 106. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Rushville and Muncietown Railroad Company,” approved January 21, 1851.

Chapter 107. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to locate a State road from Crawfordsville, in Montgomery county, to Concord, in Tippecanoe county,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 108. An act to legalize the survey and location of the Vistula State road in Elkhart county.

Chapter 109. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Decatur, Portland, and Winchester Plank Road Company.”

Chapter 110. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Knightstown and Shelbyville Rail Road Company.”

Chapter 111. An act authorizing the removal of drift and obstructions in Little river, in the counties of Allen and Huntington.

Chapter 112. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Centreville and Abington Turnpike Company,” approved 12th February, 1848.

Chapter 113. An act to authorize William M. Miller, administrator of the estate of James K. Helphill, to make a deed to John Vawter.

Chapter 114. An act for the relief of John H. Cutter, surviving partner of B. G. Cutter & Co.

Chapter 115. An act to vacate a part of Jennings and Jackson streets, in the town of Rushville.

Chapter 116. An act to change the name of Anne Able, of Martin county, to Anne Henderson.

Chapter 117. An act to legalize the sale of lands and town lots for taxes, in Spencer county, on the first Monday in January, 1851.

Chapter 118. An act to change the name of Howard Allen.

Chapter 119. An act to authorize certain school districts in Adams county to draw their proportion of the common school funds.

Chapter 120. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to revise and consolidate the several acts of the General Assembly relative to laying out, opening, repairing, changing and vacating public highways, and to the erection and repair of bridges,” and to amend the same so far as the same relates to the county of Putnam.

Chapter 121. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Clinton, in Vermillion county,” approved February 14, 1848.

Chapter 122. An act for the relief of Hezekiah A. Sutton, of Jackson county.

Chapter 123. An act to locate a State Road from Dover Hill, in Martin county, to Bloomington, in Monroe county.

Chapter 124. An act to locate and establish a State Road in the counties of Allen and Adams.

Chapter 125. An act to incorporate the Peru Hotel Company.

Chapter 126. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Moors Hill and Aurora Turnpike Company,” approved February 15, 1848.

Chapter 127. An act to authorize an extension of the Knightstown and Shelbyville Railroad.

Chapter 128. An act to incorporate the Bellville Branch Railroad Company.

Chapter 129. An act for the benefit of the Mount Vernon and New Harmony Plank Road Company.

Chapter 130. An act to amend the charter of the town of Bloomington, in the county of Monroe.

Chapter 131. An act in relation to the Northern Indiana Railroad Company.

Chapter 132. An act to incorporate the Danville and White Lick Plank Road Company.

Chapter 133. An act to incorporate the Danville and Claysville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 134. An act to incorporate the Ohio and Indiana Railroad Company.

Chapter 135. An act to constitute a School District from a portion of territory in the counties of Grant and Blackford.

Chapter 136. An act to fix a tax on a Museum in Lafayette.

Chapter 137. An act to incorporate a Fire Engine Company at North Madison.

Chapter 138. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Crawford and Perry.

Chapter 139. An act to incorporate the “Grape Vine Marsh Plank Road Company.”

Chapter 140. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Newbern, in Bartholomew county,” approved January 14, 1850.

Chapter 141. An act for the relief of Thomas Decimus Franklin, Sophia Whitworth, William Whall, John Whall, and Robert Whall.

Chapter 142. An act to repeal an act therein named.

Chapter 143. An act authorizing the board of commissioners of Howard county to cause a record to be made of a certain State Road therein named.

Chapter 144. An act limiting the jurisdiction of the corporation of the town of South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph.

Chapter 145. An act to repeal a certain act therein named so far as it relates to Grant county, and to revive certain other acts.

Chapter 146. An act for the relief of Harvey Bates, of the county of Marion.

Chapter 147. An act to locate a State Road from Pleasant Grove, in Fulton county, by the way of the Fulton Steam Mill to Perrysburg, in Miami county.

Chapter 148. An act to incorporate the town of Hope, in Bartholomew county.

Chapter 149. An act to change a portion of a certain State road therein named, in the counties of Boone and Hamilton.

Chapter 150. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ladies’ Sigourney Library, at Logansport,” approved December 27, 1848.

Chapter 151. An act to change the name of the Madison and Napoleon Turnpike Company.”

Chapter 152. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Richmond and Newport Turnpike Company,” approved January 5, 1849.

Chapter 153. An act providing for the annexation of Lamasco to Evansville.

Chapter 154. An act to incorporate the White River Navigation Company.

Chapter 155. An act to authorize certain persons therein named to erect a Toll Bridge across the west fork of White river, at or near the falls, in Morgan county.

Chapter 156. An act for the relief of the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad Company, and of the Indiana Central Railway Company.

Chapter 157. An act to incorporate the Central Plank Road Company, of Vanderburgh county, Indiana.

Chapter 158. An act to incorporate the Blountsville, Smithfield, and Montpelier Plank Road Company.

Chapter 159. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Indianapolis and Springfield Plank Road Company,” approved January 19, 1850.

Chapter 160. An act to incorporate the Indianapolis Gas Light and Coke Company.

Chapter 161. An act to locate a state road in the county of Warrick.

Chapter 162. An act authorizing the administrator and widow of Josiah F. Oakes, deceased, to execute certain quit claim deeds.

Chapter 163. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Montgomery and Tippecanoe.

Chapter 164. An act to enable the Board of Commissioners of Lake county to borrow money to build and finish a Court House and Jail.

Chapter 165. An act to establish a free turnpike road.

Chapter 166. An act to incorporate the Rising Sun Hotel Company.

Chapter 167. An act for the relief of the heirs of Elizabeth Blatner, late of Dearborn county, Indiana, but now deceased.

Chapter 168. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Cass and Howard.

Chapter 169. An act to incorporate the Central Michigan Plank Road Company.

Chapter 170. An act to incorporate a company to construct a railroad from Newburgh, on the Ohio river, to connect with the Evansville and Illinois railroad.

Chapter 171. An act to incorporate “The Madison Medical Society,” at Madison, in the county of Jefferson.

Chapter 172. An act for the relief of the inhabitants of District No. one, in Congressional Township No. one north, of range two west, in Orange county.

Chapter 173. An act to enable the Auditor of Spencer county to convey a certain tract of land therein named to John Masterson.

Chapter 174. An act to amend the charter of the Central Plank Road Company.

Chapter 175. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Fort Wayne,” and all acts and parts of acts amendatory thereto.

Chapter 176. An act to locate a State Road from Bennettsville, in Clark county, to Salem, in Washington county.

Chapter 177. An act for the sale of the public square of Evansville, and the application of its proceeds to the erection of new county buildings for Vanderburgh county.

Chapter 178. An act to incorporate the Albion and Lisbon Turnpike Company.

Chapter 179. An act to repeal an act therein named, relating to the county of Elkhart.

Chapter 180. An act to incorporate the Kankakee Bridge Company.

Chapter 181. An act to incorporate the Washington and Maysville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 182. An act to incorporate the town of Plymouth, Marshall county, Indiana.

Chapter 183. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the city of Richmond, Wayne county, Indiana, approved February 24, 1840.

Chapter 184. An act to re-locate the seat of justice of Fountain county.

Chapter 185. An act to incorporate the Cicero and Kirklin Plank Road Company.

Chapter 186. An act granting further powers to the township of Lawrenceburgh, in the county of Dearborn, in the State of Indiana.

Chapter 187. An act to enable the qualified voters of school districts Nos. 5 and 8, in township 37, range 3 west, in Laporte county, to build a union school house, and for other purposes.

Chapter 188. An act to incorporate the Covington, Newtown and Lafayette Plank Road Company.

Chapter 189. An act to incorporate the Central Canal Manufacturing, Hydraulic, and Water Works Company.

Chapter 190. An act to incorporate the Bedford Central Plank Road Company.

Chapter 191. An act to authorize the commissioners of Ohio county to collect tolls at a certain bridge therein named.

Chapter 192. An act to authorize the erection of a mill-dam across the Wabash river, in Cass county, Indiana.

Chapter 193. An act amendatory of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company.”

Chapter 194. An act for the benefit of the Edinburgh and Western Plank Road Company.

Chapter 195. An act for the relief of Daniel Stowell, of St. Joseph county.

Chapter 196. An act to incorporate the Vincennes and Orleans Plank Road Company.

Chapter 197. An act to provide for the payment of the dbts and liabilities of the Hagerstown Canal Company.

Chapter 198. An act to incorporate the Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum of Indianapolis.

Chapter 199. An act for the relief of the estate of John Reily, late of Martin county, deceased.

Chapter 200. An act for the protection of an orphan.

Chapter 201. An act in relation to State Roads in Johnson county.

Chapter 202. An act to locate a State Road in Warren and Fountain counties.

Chapter 203. An act to enable the qualified voters of district No. six (6), township No. twenty-six (26), range No. one (1) west, in Carroll county, to levy a tax in said district sufficient to build a school house.

Chapter 204. An act to authorize the city of Lafayette, to subscribe to the stock of the Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad Company.

Chapter 205. An act to incorporate the Columbus Plank Road Company.

Chapter 206. An act relative to leveeing and draining the lands in the Lower Prairie, below Vincennes in Knox county.

Chapter 207. An act to incorporate the Sparta and Napoleon Turnpike Company.

Chapter 208. An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Indiana Female College.

Chapter 209. An act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Martin county to order a vote to be taken in a certain case relating to the seat of justice of said county.

Chapter 210. An act to incorporate the Ayers University.

Chapter 211. An act to incorporate the Clinton Draw Bridge Company.

Chapter 212. An act to incorporate the Patriot and Allensville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 213. An act to revive an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Milton and Waterloo Turnpike Company.”

Chapter 214. An act to legalize the sale made for delinquent taxes at the Mayor’s office, in the city of Fort Wayne, on the 3d and 4th days of February, 1851.

Chapter 215. An act to enable John Travis, of Laporte county, to prosecute a suit for a divorce.

Chapter 216. An act to incorporate the Philalethean Society of Hanover College.

Chapter 217. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Ohio and Indiana Railroad Company,” approved January 15, 1851.

Chapter 218. An act declaring a certain name a misprint.

Chapter 219. An act to authorize the County Surveyor of Miami county to re-survey the town of Mexico, in said county.

Chapter 220. An act to authorize Joseph Morrow, Silas Parks, and Robert Wilson, commissioners appointed by the Grant Probate Court, to sell the real estate of William Wallace, deceased, at private sale.

Chapter 221. An act to legalize certain roads in Clinton County.

Chapter 222. An act to relocate the State Road between Paoli, in the county of Orange, and Troy, in the county of Perry.

Chapter 223. An act supplementary to the act for the relief of John L. Gerke, passed at the present session of the General Assembly.

Chapter 224. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to amend the Ohio, Indiana, and Lake Michigan Railroad Company,” approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 225. An act in relation to the county debt of Scott county, and authorizing the County Commissioners of said county to borrow money for certain purposes.

Chapter 226. An act to amend the charter of the town of Dublin, in Wayne county.

Chapter 227. An act to extend the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad.

Chapter 228. An act to amend the act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Troy, in Perry county,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 229. An act for the relief of Peter Helphenstine, a purchaser of school lands.

Chapter 230. An act to extend a certain road therein named.

Chapter 231. An act to locate a State Road between the counties of Tipton and Howard.

Chapter 232. An act for the relief of persons who have suffered by the destruction of the Justice’s docket of Joseph F. Marshall, a justice of the peace of the county of Hancock, on the 24th day of December, 1850.

Chapter 233. An act to incorporate the Aurora Hotel Company.

Chapter 234. An act to amend the charter of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company.

Chapter 235. An act to vacate a certain street in the town of Crawfordsville.

Chapter 236. An act to authorize the board of commissioners of Putnam county to issue bonds.

Chapter 237. An act providing for the election of three School Commissioners in township No. 12 north, of range No. 11 east, in the counties of Franklin, Rush and Decatur.

Chapter 238. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the German Theological Seminary of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 239. An act incorporating the Madison and Cross Plains Plank Road Company.

Chapter 240. An act to incorporate the Camden and Lockport Plank Road Company.

Chapter 241. An act to incorporate the Franklin Insurance Company.

Chapter 242. An act to authorize John Warren to file a bill in chancery in the Tipton Circuit Court.

Chapter 243. An act authorizing the president and trustees of the town of Lafayette to purchase and hold real estate.

Chapter 244. An act to authorize the Lafayette Insurance Company to increase its capital stock.

Chapter 245. An act declaring Flat Creek, or so much thereof as lies within the counties of Pike and Dubois, a public highway.

Chapter 246. An act to repeal an act entitled “an act to amend the Road law in Jefferson county.”

Chapter 247. An act to vacate part of the road leading from Harrison to Indianapolis.

Chapter 248. An act to change the name of Shadrach Anderson to that of William Johnson.

Chapter 249. An act declaring a certain county road therein named a State road.

Chapter 250. An act to change the name of Mount Wallaston in the county of White, to Norway.

Chapter 251. An act to amend an act entitled “an act relative to the leveeing the Wabash river on Shaker prairie,” approved January 14, 1846, and to repeal an act amendatory thereto, approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 252. An act relative to the Laporte and Plymouth Plank Road Company.

Chapter 253. An act in relation to the South Bend and Plymouth Plank Road Company.

Chapter 254. An act to vacate an alley in the town of Bloomington.

Chapter 255. An act to incorporate the Peru and Andersontown Plank Road Company.

Chapter 256. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Terre Haute Draw Bridge Company,” approved January 13, 1845.

Chapter 257. An act authorizing Cyrus Taber and Allen Hamilton to build a dam across the Wabash River, in Cass county.

Chapter 258. An act to incorporate the Pittsborough and Crawfordsville Plank Road Company.

Chapter 259. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to declare certain water courses in the counties of Perry and Spencer, public highways, and for other purposes,” approved January 17, 1850.

Chapter 260. An act for the relief of George Coit.

Chapter 261. An act to revive and extend the provisions of an act to incorporate the town of Anderson, approved January 17, 1849.

Chapter 262. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Hamilton, Tipton and Howard.

Chapter 263. An act authorizing John Heiney to build a mill-dam across the Salamonia river.

Chapter 264. An act to authorize Loyd Brown and Eli Brown to erect and maintain a mill-dam across White river near Anderson in Madison county.

Chapter 265. An act to locate a State road in Allen county.

Chapter 266. A bill to legalize certain acts of the Henry County Turnpike Company and for other purposes.

Chapter 267. An act to locate a State road in the counties of Pulaski, Starke and Laporte.

Chapter 268. An act to amend an act entitled, “an act to incorporate the Peru and Indianapolis Railroad Company,” approved January 19, 1846.

Chapter 269. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Madison County Hydraulic and Manufacturing Company,” approved January 15th, 1849.

Chapter 170. An act for the benefit of the Union Plank Road Company, and the Michigan City and South Bend Plank Road Company, in Laporte county.

Chapter 171. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Greensburgh and Brookville Turnpike Company,” approved January 15, 1849.

Chapter 172. An act to change the names of persons therein named.

Chapter 173. An act for the relief of Dempsey Linton.

Chapter 174. An act for the relief of Andrew Morgan, of Dearborn county.

Chapter 175. An act to amend an act to incorporate the Logansport and Rochester Michigan Road Company, approved January 15, 1846.

Chapter 176. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Lake Michigan, Logansport, and Ohio River Railroad Company,” enacted by the General Assembly in February 1848.

Chapter 177. An act to extend the Martinsville and Franklin Railroad via Spencer, in Owen county, to the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Chapter 178. An act to incorporate the Connersville and Milton Turnpike Company.

Chapter 179. An act amendatory to the acts incorporating the townships of Dearborn, so as to authorize the board of county commissioners of said county to establish additional election precincts, if they deem it expedient.

Chapter 180. An act authorizing the location of a State road from Hartford in Blackford county, through New Cumberland in Grant county, to Kokomo in Howard county.

Chapter 181. An act to amend the charter of the town of Terre Haute.

Chapter 182. An act to incorporate the Vanderburgh Manufacturing company.

Chapter 183. An act to authorize the building of a Bridge across Laughery creek by Andrew Morgan.

Chapter 184. An act to exempt from taxation the Marine Hospital at Evansville, Indiana.

Chapter 185. An act to incorporate the New Trenton and Southgate Bridge and Road Company.

Chapter 186. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Trustees of the Hartsville Academy,” approved January 12, 1850.

Chapter 187. An act establishing a state road in the counties of Orange and Crawford.

Chapter 188. An act for the relief of Ann Blythestone of Allen county.

Chapter 189. An act to incorporate the New Albany Hotel Company.

Chapter 190. An act to legalize the acts of the late treasurer of Elkhart county, and to extend the time of paying taxes in said county.

Chapter 191. An act to relocate a State road in DeKalb county.

Chapter 192. An act declaring Mill creek in Morgan county a public highway.

Chapter 193. An act for the relief of the administrator of the estate of Albert Monson, late of St. Joseph county, deceased.

Chapter 194. An act providing for electing township assessors in Rush county.

Chapter 195. An act authorizing the secretary of state to issue a Patent to Daniel K. Smith for a tract of land therein named.

Chapter 196. An act to authorize the city of Madison to borrow money.

Chapter 197. An act to change the name of Joseph Grandison Jones to that of Joseph Grandison Talbot.

Chapter 198. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Connersville and Brownsville Turnpike Company, approved 16th January, 1849.

Chapter 199. An act authorizing the Western Plank Road Company to issue and sell bonds.

Chapter 200. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Rushville and Muncietown Railroad Company,” approved January 21, 1850.

Chapter 201. An act to vacate a portion of a certain State road.

Chapter 202. An act to amend the act to incorporate the Brookville and Connersville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 203. An act to annex the town of Belleville in the county of Posey, to the town of Mount Vernon.

Chapter 204. An act in relation to a certain road and street therein named.

Chapter 205. An act to enable Thomas G. Alvord to file his bill in chancery in the Laporte circuit court.

Chapter 206. An act to incorporate the Vernon Insurance, Life and Trust, Trading, and Manufacturing Company.

Chapter 207. An act to authorize the construction of a mill-dam across the Tippecanoe river in the county of White.

Chapter 208. An act to vacate an alley in the town of Greencastle in Putnam county.

Chapter 209. An act to repeal a Plank Road law of Huntington and Whitley counties.

Chapter 210. An act to vacate a part of Gilmore’s addition to the village of Angola in Steuben county.

Chapter 211. An act to amend an act entitled “an act requiring the supervisors of roads in Coal Creek township, in Montgomery county, to keep the same in repair, and for other purposes therein contained.

Chapter 212. An act to authorize the treasurer of Laporte county to charge a per centage on road tax receipts.

Chapter 213. An act for the relief of Harmon N. Kress, of Clay county, Indiana.

Chapter 214. An act to authorize the electing a supervisor for Laurel township in Franklin county.

Chapter 215. An act declaring a part of Poison creek, in Perry county, a public highway.

Chapter 216. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Richmond and Boston Turnpike Company,” approved February 15, 1839.

Chapter 217. An act to incorporate the Plainfield Seminary.

Chapter 218. An act extending the provisions of “an act for the benefit of the Clark County Central Plank Road Company,” to the Madison, Hanover and Lexington Plank Road Company.

Chapter 219. An act to extend the provisions of an act entitled “an act to enable the qualified voters of District No. 4, in township No. 31 north, of range 6 east, in Kosciusko county, to levy tax in said district sufficient to build a school house,” approved January 21, 1850, to the several school districts in Fulton county.

Chapter 220. An act relative to the Western Plank Road Company.

Chapter 221. An act entitled “an act for the relief of John J. Cummins.”

Chapter 222. An act to incorporate the Evansville Hotel Company.

Chapter 223. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Wayne county Turnpike Company,” approved December 5, 1848.

Chapter 224. An act to authorize the draining of wet lands in Miami, Allen, Huntington, and St. Joseph counties.

Chapter 225. An act to authorize the board doing county business in Tipton county, to change burial ground for the town of Tipton.

Chapter 226. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Lafayette Plank Road Company,” approved January 3, 1849.

Chapter 227. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Crawfordsville and Wabash Railroad Company,” approved January 19, 1846, and the acts amendatory thereto.

Chapter 228. An act to incorporate the German Union Support Society, of Jefferson county.

Chapter 229. An act to authorize the township trustees of Lawrenceburgh township, of Dearborn county, to assess and collect a free bridge tax.

Chapter 230. An act to incorporate the Bluffton Band.

Chapter 231. An act to incorporate the town of Milford, Decatur county.

Chapter 232. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to authorize the Jeffersonville Railroad Company to issue and secure the payment of bonds,” approved December 29, 1849.

Chapter 233. An act for the relief of Samuel Shimer, and other purchasers of school lands in Randolph and Delaware counties.

Chapter 234. An act legalizing the sale of the school section in township 11 north, of range one east, in Morgan county, Indiana.

Chapter 235. An act to incorporate the Montpelier and Matamoras Plank Road Company.

Chapter 236. An act to incorporate the Congregation of the German Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul’s Church, in the city of Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen.

Chapter 237. An act providing for the location of a State road from Troy, in Perry county, to Spencer, in Owen county, in this State.

Chapter 238. An act to locate a State Road in the counties of Boone and Marion.

Chapter 239. An act to incorporate the Indiana Fire and Marine Insurance Company.

Chapter 240. An act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the town of Peru,” approved February 14, 1848.

Chapter 241. An act to create a school district in Marshall county.

Chapter 242. An act relative to the Clark County Central Plank Road Company.

Chapter 243. An act to incorporate the Madison and Vevay Plank Road Company.

Chapter 244. An act to amend the charter of the Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company.

Chapter 245. An act providing for a certain State road therein named.

Chapter 246. An act amendatory of the several acts relating to the city of Logansport, approved February 17, 1838, January 13, 1845, and January 14, 1848.

Chapter 247. An act to incorporate the Anderson, Alexandria, and Jonesborough Plank Road Company.

Chapter 248. An act to incorporate the Franklin and Shelbyville Turnpike Company.

Chapter 249. An act to incorporate a gas-light company in the city of Madison.

Chapter 250. An act to change the name of the town of Portland, in Hancock county, to that of Cleveland, and to incorporate the same.

Chapter 251. An act to authorize the formation of Gas-light companies.

Chapter 252. An act to incorporate the Charleston and Brownstown Plank Road Company.

Chapter 253. An act to incorporate the Wabash, Warsaw and Goshen Plank Road Company.

Chapter 255 [sic]. An act to incorporate the town of New Winchester in Hendricks county.